Well, summer has officially arrived. Honestly, it’s been a great spring for working in the garden, and now that the heavy work is done, I’m OK with heat, humidity, sunshine, and rain doing most of the work for the next few months.
First, we have the potato box. This is a bit of an experiment, and I’m hoping it gives me some tubers for mashing, smashing, roasting, boiling, and baking.
Potato Box
Potato Plants – 2 weeks after planting
Next, we have the kale. This is the second growth of the crop. We’ve already had two meals from this patch, and we’ll get at least two more. I’m going to keep them in the ground as long as they keep growing.
Kale
I see a lot of salads in our future:
Lettuce
We are going to have our first blackberries this year, and we’ve already gotten a lot of strawberries.
Blackberry Blossoms
Strawberries
We’re also going to have our first crop of apples.
Apples
Our peppers, onions, and tomatoes are also doing well. Some of the tomato plants are already blooming, so if the weather cooperates, we should have a good haul of spaghetti and chili sauce this year.
DaddyBear’s Den 
bluesun
/ June 4, 2014As a recent transplant to a house that come with a couple fruit trees, I am wondering, do you spray your trees? I know around here there are big cotter moth problems and if you don’t spray em you’ll get worms, but I have no idea if that’s a universal thing or not.
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daddybear71
/ June 5, 2014We use a neem oil based anti-fungal, and we sprayed insecticide this spring when the blossoms were closing. We lost a lot of peaches and cherries to bugs last year.
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bluesun
/ June 5, 2014We kinda figured this first year we’d just let them do their thing since we have no experience with fruit trees and see what happened. So far there seems to be a bounty of pears and plums, but I have no idea how buggy they are on the inside.
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Old NFO
/ June 5, 2014Looking good!
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